Aren’t these beautiful? I picked them up when I was walking to mail some envelopes.
Fall- busy crafting season. I am trying to crank up my production to have inventory for the very limited venues I will be showing in this fall. I have a stack of ladies cut out, ready to put together and embellish. The first 2 ladies-
I’ve finished 3 tikis except I forgot to take photos of one of them before I sent it off- oops! This one left today-
And this one is the latest I have finished-
Also, I put my extra school picture atcs in my Etsy shop here.
We had a great swap/potluck-
We laid all our cards out on the dining room table-
and then the hard part- choosing!
these are the ones I got-
I put lots of photos on flickr and wrote up something for Boston Handmade.
I am making little envelopes for my School Picture artist trading cards. I’ve decided to get some use- and laughs- from my old report cards. They sure put all the school issues my kids have had into perspective. School was pretty much torture for me.
That bottom one says- – Mimi must exert greater all around effort- attentiveness, completeness, neatness, accuracy. That was 6th grade (12 yrs old).
This one (below) is from the year I lived in London. I love the Needlework grade- D+. But I really improved and by the end of the year I had a B-.
envelopes-
I joined Facebook a while back- my husband is on it, my kids are on it… but I still haven’t figured out how to use it in my world. At this point I find it very confusing- so many applications, so few that work the way I expect! It takes me a while with these things- it was maybe a year before I realized how Flickr had expanded my art/craft online life. I am hoping that Facebook will also enlarge my community, but I haven’t found the way yet. Any thoughts?
Internet love- I found Elsita’s blog, Rebel, when she left a comment. Then I found her shop. Now I have a new little friend!
I like having a theme when I do something like a group of artist trading cards. I knew I wanted to do a group with faces. As I started putting them together, they looked like school photos to me. That really helped me think about them while finishing up the project.
These are for a swap next weekend with members of Boston Handmade, the etsy street team I am part of. Fun!
making up a title is always a challenge.
I have decided that I should start stuffing most of my dolls with wool- the whole earth friendly, biodegradable thing. It really isn’t a price issue- polyester-$3 a pound, wool- 5.25 a pound. So I ordered up 5 pounds. I bought this wool batt from West Earl Woolen Mill. They don’t have a web site so you have to actually call them on the telephone- eek, so old-fashioned! (717-859-2241) I say, I’d like to order some wool for doll stuffing- they know just what I want. And I got a free calendar!
Okay now everybody, this is what I want- someone to invent/manufacture so I can buy it- recycled scrap wool stuffing. Just figure out a way to take scrap wool and chop or shred it up for us to use- come on now, people!
I’ve been working on some more tikis. They have been my carry around project for a while now, so they are going rather slowly. Here are 2 brown ones. I’ve also got a red one going.
And today, I’ve been working on ATCs- artist trading cards. I will be doing a swap with my etsy group- Boston Handmade. I haven’t made any in more then a year. It is great fun to get back into it. I am remembering why I liked them. They are like little doodles.
ATC- Work in progress. I’m loving how they look all together here on my ironing board.
these are all approximately 4 x 6 inches- some as big as 4 1/4 x 6 1/4. I am looking into having some printed cards in a Cafepress store- I spent yesterday afternoon getting very frustrated with that… I guess I am spoiled by all the user friendly sites I use- flickr and etsy are pretty understandable to me.
Two of these are spoken for already. I will be getting these into my etsy shop in a bit, or you can email me- mimik(at)pobox(dot)com.
Forest cards-
my table is covered with small and smaller and teeny-tiny scraps of fabric.
I’ve had a great week. I haven’t gotten much work done, but it has been good. The weather has been cool and fall-like. School is settling in. I like the more structured schedule of the days. I’ve had the opportunity to talk craft with several people- the kind of conversations that charge you up and are exhausting at the same time because they get your brain working in new directions.
I am working on postcards- these are a celebration of the end of summer garden.
My camera seems to understand the color of grass- if I include grass in my pictures, all the other colors seem to be right. Funny, eh?!
